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TomOwen

Posted 15 April 2015 - 08:34 AM

I was told that for 22m/7cm side mounted to the rack makes a decent ground-plane.. Conversation went on to say Center or rack was better (non-option) and got geeky from there. My take-away: Side mount = good :-)

RedRover

Posted 15 April 2015 - 08:43 AM

I was told that for 22m/7cm side mounted to the rack makes a decent ground-plane.. Conversation went on to say Center or rack was better (non-option) and got geeky from there. My take-away: Side mount = good :-)

I'll take a guess Tom meant to type 2 meter / 70 centimeter, or he's recently been licensed to work in Space Research or Aeronautical navigation.

RedRover

Posted 15 April 2015 - 08:49 AM

John Shumovich from SCLR recently installed a Yaesu FT-8800R in his L322 RR. He didnt want to have to worry about manually raising and lowering his antenna so he got the diamond motorized mount for it along with the Daimond NR770HB. He even went as far as taking his remote mounted faceplate for the radio to bits and swapping out the standard Yaesu orange LED's with green ones so it match his interior lighting. I saw his setup two weeks ago on the SCLR Mojave road trip and it is pretty slick. The antenna parks down next to his roof rack behind one of his side facing lights with the flip of a switch. Here's a link to his pics of his install:

RedRover

Posted 15 April 2015 - 09:20 AM

Would be good to know how well it holds up to repeated abuse from tree branches and stuff over the years. I like the concept but when I saw the motorized box in person a few years ago, it didn't scream 'over-engineered'.

TomOwen

Posted 15 April 2015 - 03:17 PM

I made a small bracket that mounts to the floor hardware and comes off to to the outside. This is a piece of building hardware from OSH and I enlarged to hole to accept the NMO mount Thus, I can swap antennas as needed without removing the mount or coax.

The mount you bought may be able to clamp to a support bar on your rack or the lower of two top rails (if you have).

Is 22m even a band? I think that's close to cold fusion or worm hole no??

Motorized look really clunky to me plus the additional need for space, power etc... for mounting.

Sean's is on the rear of his truck, I think a deck-lid type mount on the seem of the door or around the spare tire carrier...

ElSol, don't you reach up and fold down manually on the CT? That seems like best way to go - maybe even a shorter run for the coax if that matter (Jared can confirm, but it does for CB.. yes, length matters... ok ok ...)